On Tuesday 01 June 2004 10:26, Jon LaBadie wrote:
>On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 09:14:16PM -0700, gen2 wrote:
>> > /dev/sda9 is NOT a mount point, its a descriptor only and will
>> > probably fail forever.
>> >
>> > now, if that disk is mounted someplace, as in /mnt/sda9 on the
>> > machine whose alias is node1, and it is mounted when amdump
>> > runs, it should work like a champ.
>>
>> Ok, what I'm experiencing lends that a lot of credence, but what
>> sent me off in this direction was (from the amanda distribution,
>> example disklist entries)
>>
>> # Dump Joe's NetBSD machine, with the mounted MS-DOS partition
>> dumped # using tar.
>> #joespc wd0a comp-root
>> #joespc wd0e comp-user
>> #joespc /msdos comp-user-tar
>>
>> which seems to imply that it's possible to back up unmounted
>> partitions, and that would be really great! I've always been under
>> the impression that this was amanda-possible somehow, but never
>> have been able to make it happen.
>>
>> Seems like this would be the way to back up a partition regardless
>> of formatting (like an HFS+ or NT part, which is really what I'm
>> after).
>
>If the program you tell amanda to use for the backup is a version
>of tar, then it can only backup files and directories. That is a
>property of tar, not amanda. And of course, for there to be files
>and directories, the partition must be mounted.
>
>If instead you tell amanda to use a version of dump, those programs
>generally work at the device level (even when told to work on a
>mount point) and should be able to backup umounted partitions.
I didn't know that Jon, thanks. But with all the bad press dump has
collected (even LT damns it, and did so again fairly recently), I
haven't ever given it a test run here.
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